One of the neat things about having a blog is that you can look “behind the scenes” to get some information about your site. For instance, I can see what site you’re coming from if you’ve clicked a link to get here - Queen Kelley seems to be a large contributor. (Thanks, babe!) And I can tell how often links on my site are clicked. (Apparently no one likes my music recommendations.) One interesting statistic is the number of visitors that the site receives per day. I’ve noticed that the number is way higher than it should be. So, after gathering my suspicions, I contacted my web/jedi master and he confirmed what I have long feared:

The Google BotBots. No, not Bill Botts, but Robots. They’ve been looking at my site. Google bots, yahoo bots, you name it. They’ve been crawling this place since I opened for business. So what does this mean? I don’t know yet. I’ve been waiting to see what comments they leave in the comment section, but they’ve been silent thus far. I can’t tell if they’re quite because they’re content with what they’re reading or if they’re upset and going to get reinforcements.

So, in an effort to keep the bots happy, I think I’ll tell a joke in their native language: binary code –

10101111010101000101001011010101101
010111010010001010101011011010101010
101010100101110101010101010101011101
00101010101110011001101111101000000

HA! HA! Can you believe that? “01000” That’s funny.